Support Linux URL handlers

[joaomoreno]

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[langpavel]

This may be useful as a hint: shengyou/vscode-handler#installing-on-linux
Please, take a two minutes to look into source, it may work only for open: https://github.com/shengyou/vscode-handler/blob/master/vscode-handler

[segevfiner]

shared-mime-info-spec - URI scheme handlers

I think adding a NoDisplay desktop file with MimeType=x-scheme-handler/vscode that launches VS Code with --open-url is what's needed to implement this.

[langpavel]

nice relevant gist: https://gist.github.com/peakhmr/9623e8f6da0acbec10d4ae1171bb7c70

[segevfiner]

VS Code has native support for opening it's own URL scheme via the hidden --open-url argument, I don't think there is a need for wrapper script shenanigans.

I'm going to submit a PR.

[AmandaCameron]

I've not checked too far into it (Just subscribed to this to keep up to date) but the wrapper script is probably there because `%u` in the standard would include the "vscode://" prefix.

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[segevfiner]

I've not checked too far into it (Just subscribed to this to keep up to date) but the wrapper script is probably there because %u in the standard would include the "vscode://" prefix.

That's what should happen, that's what --open-url handles. 😃 You can test #56727 if you like. Alternatively you can test this (Which is what the PR adds):

For OSS:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Code - OSS - URL Handler
Comment=Code Editing. Redefined.
GenericName=Text Editor
Exec=/usr/share/code-oss/code-oss --open-url %U
Icon=code-oss
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Code - OSS
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;Development;IDE;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/vscode
Keywords=vscode;

For release version:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Visual Studio Code - URL Handler
Comment=Code Editing. Redefined.
GenericName=Text Editor
Exec=/usr/share/code/code --open-url %U
Icon=code
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Code
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;Development;IDE;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/vscode
Keywords=vscode;

Drop it into /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications and run update-desktop-database on that directory.